[ExI] Satoshi Nakamoto

[Adrian Tymes]

Let it be said, with SpaceX's post-IPO price drop, Musk is no longer a
trillionaire - and arguably never actually was: he wasn't selling his
shares in the period where they would have gained that much money.

That said, his skills as an engineer (and engineering manager) aren't
what made most of his money.  His skills at getting other people to
pay a high price for what he paid a low price appear to be the primary
source of his wealth; those skills aren't that uncommon, but he
appears to have gotten lucky in exercising them.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 8:03 AM Stefano Ticozzi via extropy-chat
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> In my humble opinion, the whole “if I was a trillionaire” argument doesn’t make much sense. Musk became a trillionaire thanks to his unique skills. He’s eccentric and obviously makes mistakes but he has also accomplished a great deal and has often seen things before others did.
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> stefano
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> Il ven 7 ago 2026, 13:14 John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> ha scritto:
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>>  spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> > I will pass on working for Elon.  I have no personal heartburn with him, and see that he is doing all the things we would do if we owned a trillion dollars.
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>> If I was a trillionaire I would NOT have spent $291 million to get the most anti-libertarian President in American history reelected. And I would NOT have created DOGE and made a fool of myself by claiming it would save the government $2 TRILLION A YEAR  when it ended up doing little except to increase the stockpile of government chaos, which we already had a sufficient amount of.
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>> And I would NOT have spent $44 billion in 2022 to buy Twitter, and at the time I publicly said as much on this list. Musk was not a trillionaire in 2022 and way back then $44 billion was real money; if instead he had used that money for AI research then today Grok would not be an also ran in the rapidly accelerating AI race and the man would be a multi-trillionaire. Instead poor old Musk is barely a trillionaire and all he got from that 44 billion was an outdated platform that's full of lunatic conspiracy theories, lethal medical advice, and neo-Nazis.
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>> John K Clark
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